Past tense of overfly
irregular verb
The past tense of overfly is overflew. The past participle is overflown.
Forms of overfly
| Base form (V1) | overfly |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | overflew |
| Past participle (V3) | overflown |
| Present participle | overflying |
| Third person singular | overflies |
Overflew and overflown in a sentence
- My family planned to take pictures from the ground as I overflew them in the hot air balloon.
- In the canopy, friendly birds (not the desperate, demented scavengers that sometimes overflew the plains) chirped and laboured on their nests.2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 193
Meaning of overfly
- verb To fly over something.
- verb To fly too far past something.
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Questions about the past tense of overfly
- What is the past tense of overfly?
- The past tense of overfly is overflew.
- What is the past participle of overfly?
- The past participle of overfly is overflown.
- Is overfly a regular or irregular verb?
- Overfly is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: overfly (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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